The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
01/Aug/2009
Fabio Pereira Neves, Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho, Carlos Nabinger, Aino Victor Ávila Jacques, Igor Justin Carassai, Fabio Tentardini
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-35982009000800018
The experiment was carried out to evaluate the development of beef heifers from 15 to 28 months of age, maintained on natural pasture under different herbage allowance (HA) managements. The treatments were fixed HA of 4, 8, 12 and 16% of the body weight (BW) over the year, and variable HA of 8-12%; 12-8%; and 16-12%, where the first value corresponded to the HA used in the spring and the second one to that used in the remainder of the […]
Keywords: progesterone; reproductive aptitude; stocking management; sward structure